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Dionysus
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Dionysus

Luna marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Vettii
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 53505

This statue portrays the adolescent Dionysus, according to iconographical elements derived from Dionysian statuary models developed in Hellenistic and Roman times.